THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: More Variations Of Bane's Mask & Concept Art Of The Bat

More images and concept art from the Blu-ray release of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Hit the jump to see different mask designs for Tom Hardy's Bane. As well as art depicting the destruction of the football field and Batman's flying vehicle, "The Bat."

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By nailbiter111 - 11/29/2012

The website Movies.com has uploaded some more concept art and images from the Blu-ray release of Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight Rises. Below you'll find some more variations of the Bane mask. Do you think the final version that Tom Hardy wore was best, or would you have preferred one of the other designs? Voice your opinion in comment section.

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The Dark Knight Rises will be released on DVD, Blu-ray and Digital Download on December 4th. The film stars Christian Bale as Bruce Wayne/Batman, Michael Caine as Alfred Pennyworth, Gary Oldman as Jim Gordon, Tom Hardy as Bane, Anne Hathaway as Selina Kyle, Joseph Gordon-Levitt as John "Robin" Blake and Marion Cotillard as Miranda Tate/Talia al Ghul.

"Do you think the final version that Tom Hardy was best, or would you have preferred one of the designs from below?"Well considering this is comicbookmovie.com people would have hated the mask regardless because they have to hate something

No, I HATE this mask. I HATE this movie too. Why can't a director get batman right, sob, why, why, sob, bring on the reboot. And if i HATE that reboot, reboot that reboot, sob. And if the reboot's reboot disappoints me, reboot that reboot's reboot sob.

Full mask wouldn't have allowed a more personable villain. Seeing a large portion of his face is better. If they wanted to do the hulk version of Bane, instead of the intellectual version found in the comic series, then a full mask would have been better. Just my opinion.

Honestly, I don't think it's that big of a deal if his face is covered or not. He can still be this very intelligent villain, who's very menacing and a great fighter and be a personable villain with his face covered also,(Darth Vader, that dude was scary a f***). You can have flashback scenes of him in his early years training, before putting on the mask to show people what he looks like, how he grew up, and so on.

A troll is somebody who says something to get people angry without stating an opinion. Having an opposing viewpoint doesn’t make a person a troll; get a clue, and stop acting like an intolerant facist.

The site doesn't need a troll plunge if what you are stating is people that don't agree with your viewpoint. If you want like-minded people, why don't you skip on over to NolanFans.

If you are allowed to adore something, people are allowed to hate it. It's what allows for a free society.

I know this is all in one ear and out the other, but you need to understand that people are entitled to different views.

And, yeah, [frick] the nostalgia critic, me, and everybody with an IQ over 75.

Bane's design was O.K. but Bane couldve been done better in voice, fighting skills and especially his story and death. The Talia crap did nothing for the film but give a very unshocking twist and shouldve been dropped in a rewrite. Bane was despised by Ra's but decides to sacrifice himself to fulfill Ra's destiny? Thats a bit much when you consider that they couldve destroyed Gotham and escaped, so why decide to die? Hardy's Bane voice kinda sounds like voicework for animation. I think he tried a bit too hard to hit it out of the park.

troll (play /ˈtroʊl/, /ˈtrɒl/) is someone who posts inflammatory, extraneous, or off-topic messages in an online community, such as a forum, chat room, or blog, with the primary intent of provoking readers into an emotional response or of otherwise disrupting normal on-topic discussion

In other words, saying "S#it movie" and bailing on the thread is trolling. If you attach an opinion behind the comment, it is no longer trolling.

But... but Vader was disfigured, that's why he wore a mask. AND he has a badass [frick]ing voice.

Why would Bane have a full face mask on throughout the movie, there's no way mr emote-yourself Nolan would film with an expressionless character. Even Spider-man, Captain America took their masks off more time than a bitch goes topless in miami.

I love this shit:

but that wrestler's mask shit works if you change Bane's origins and disfigure his entire face, so the audience doesn't wonder why he is wearing a full face wrestler mask for no reason, he sure as hell ain't hiding his identity.

@TheYoungMan Wow, Hardy really bulked up a lot for this role! Wish I could bulk up as good as him haha

I'll say this. It doesn't really matter to me if a few changes are made to a character's look. I'm happy as long as the actor portrays the character well! That's something that Hardy did excellently with Bane.

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